Fossil Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 I am in no way associated with this vehicle. 1958 BMW Isetta. Has deluxe/tropical door! Runs and drives great. Gets looks where ever it goes and a blast to drive. 1958 BMW Isetta condition: excellentcylinders: otherdrive: rwdfuel: gasodometer: 11675paint color: redsize: sub-compacttitle status: cleantransmission: manualtype: other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif in Calif Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Looks great and this may be an appropriate price! I had a 6'4" Highschool teacher who drove one of these! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 236ccs of screamn BMW motivation. Be sure to live and travel on flat ground😀. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_S_in_Penna Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 (edited) It might be fun in a parking lot, but for $40,000, almost any other car would be my preference. Doug Demuro, a Youtube reviewer of mostly exotic cars, did a review and test drive--see link below. His review is both practical and funny: "It has less horsepower than any John Deere mower currently in production." It doesn't sound like a very good car! The test drive is in the latter half of his video. Edited July 25, 2022 by John_S_in_Penna (see edit history) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Guy a street over has one if these things. Saturday I saw him about 6 or 7 miles from the neighborhood on a 45 mph road. Traffic on a Saturday morning was brisk and he looked pretty intense as he was coming to a major intersection. I was thinking to myself, I take my A on that road regularly in confidence but that thing looked like a rolling death trap on its little golf cart like wheels etc. I have yet to chat with him about it, interesting but filed under more weird than wonderful to me anyway. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipping reccomendations Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 One of the funniest “car” video’s I’ve ever watched. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StillOutThere Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 I owned a '58 Isetta 300 and drove it here in the Texas Hill Country. True it is not a great acceleration car when pulling onto a state highway. But that 4 speed transmission made up for everything in traffic and residential hills around town. If you test drive, be aware the shift pattern is "upside down and backward" from what you expect in your muscle car. The reactions from the public and at "cruise night" or shows is continually priceless. And in 2022 you will absolutely love the fuel mileage. "Yeah, its got a Hemi" as that R26 BMW 2 cylinder motorcycle engine has in fact hemispherical combustion chambers. The cornering capabilities of these American versions with dual rear wheels (single in Euro versions) is unbelievable and I never got the car into a hard lean even when throwing it around on my twisty drive and subdivision roads. I'm 6' 2" and this car had the most operator room of anything I've ever owned. I let mine go when a retired Chrysler engineer friend simply could not live without it. I'm sorry I relented. I could use the economy today. So I've followed the market some. Yes, they were this high a few years ago. True this one is too optimistic today. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRiv_63 Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Sorry, I will never understand the attraction or crazy price of these cars. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 On 7/25/2022 at 1:08 PM, Leif in Calif said: Looks great and this may be an appropriate price! I had a 6'4" Highschool teacher who drove one of these! Not quite that tall but my band teacher in HS spoke highly of his Isetta. He sold it before I got to HS and was driving VW's. He was quite a quirky fellow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 When I was little (there he goes again!), my mom did not drive. We lived on the outskirts of old San Jose California, just a long block away from the Alameda Avenue. It was about eight blocks to Bettencourt's grocery and what used to be world famous "Andy's Pet Shop" (both on the Alameda). Just past those stores, behind a fence in a vacant space between stores, were two Isetta cars. There was a knothole in one of the fence boards, and whenever we would walk a bit past the two stores that we walked there for? I would look through that knothole and at those two Issetas. I was five to seven years old. I thought they were neat! When I was seven, we moved to the suburbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchan Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 5 hours ago, wayne sheldon said: When I was little (there he goes again!), my mom did not drive. We lived on the outskirts of old San Jose California, just a long block away from the Alameda Avenue. It was about eight blocks to Bettencourt's grocery and what used to be world famous "Andy's Pet Shop" (both on the Alameda). Just past those stores, behind a fence in a vacant space between stores, were two Isetta cars. There was a knothole in one of the fence boards, and whenever we would walk a bit past the two stores that we walked there for? I would look through that knothole and at those two Issetas. I was five to seven years old. I thought they were neat! When I was seven, we moved to the suburbs. San Jose was an interesting place before it turned into a megalopolis. I guess it still is, but you have to look hard. I recall an identical pair of mid-30’s Hupmobile sedans rusting away in a vacant lot on San Carlos St in the 60’s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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